The Artist:
Robert Heinecken was born in Denver, Colorado in 1931. He studied at Riverside College in California and received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California. In 1960, he became a Professor of Art at U.C.L.A., where he served as chairman of the Department of Photography. He also taught at Harvard, George Eastman House, and The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Heinecken's work is included in numerous permanent collections, notably The Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA, The Museum of Modern Art, in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden.
Heinecken works in various processes always directly connected to photography; from gelatin silver prints, photographic lithographs, and sculptural transparencies to three-dimensional objects. His source material is from popular culture, resulting in contact prints from magazines, film overlays on live television sets showing soap operas or cartoons, ink transfers from newspapers, and incorporation of anonymous photographs from mail-order houses.
The artist ". . . has long enjoyed a reputation as a sort of West Coast enfant terrible of photography, challenging not only a succession of formal constraints, but also taboos with his often deliberately provocative subject matter."1
Heinecken, who was trained as a printmaker, says he ". . . just stumbled into trying photographs, at first combined with drawings and things like that, or aquatints. I had never made photographs, and when you do it for the first time, it's very exciting, it's magic."2
출처 - http://sheldon.unl.edu/html/ARTIST/Heinecken_R/FFT.html -
- www.ezellgallery.com/heinecken/ -
했고 B.A.와 M.A. 학위를 캘리포니아 대학에서 받았다. 1960년에 그는 사진과의 학과주임으로 일했던 U.C.L.A에
예술교수가 된다. 그는 또한 하바드, 조지이스트만 하우스 그리고 시카도 예술학교에서 가르쳤었다. 하이넥켄의
작품은 The Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA, The Museum of Modern Art, in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Sculpture Garden과 같이 유명한곳에 수집되어
있다.
다양한 제작과정을 거치는 하이넥켄의 작품들은 사진과 직접적인 관련이 있다: 흑백 프린트, 석판인쇄 그리고
조각의 3차원적 투영(sculptural transparencies to three-dimensional objects). 그의 작업 원천은 잡지로부터
밀착인화, 드라마 혹은 만화를 방송중인 TV에 필름 겹치기, 신문으로부터 잉크전사 그리고 우편주문으로부터 무명의 사진의 합성(incorporation of anonymous photographs from mail-order houses) 등과 같은 대중문화로부터
온다.
이 예술가는 ".. 공식적인 제약사항일 뿐만 아니라 자극적인 문제를 가진 금기사항에 도전함으로서 무책임한
서부해안(West Coast)의 사진으로서 오랫동안 명성을 누렸었다. "
인화전문가로서 훈련받은 하이넥켄은 "... 애쿼틴트 판화나 혹은 그 비슷한것들과 회화를 결합시켰을 때,
사진을 찍을려고 힘들게 시도했었다. 나는 결코 사진을 만드는적이 없었다. 처음으로 당신이 사진을 찍어줬을때,
그것은 매운 흥분되는 일이고 마술 같은것이다."